Wallace Stegner Quotes
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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I have a hyper personality.
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There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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Our King Jesus is accused of treachery; it is said of him by the Muslims that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully
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I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.
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I think that fiction has a certain power.
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We're so lucky to take being alive for granted.
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Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.
